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horrifyingly) titillated by the dark activities recounted and wild accusations raised, and the men drum up hysteria

of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

Female characters--as well as their female friends and relatives who appear in retold stories and histories and bravery required by Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women--to write a new history

into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the world and history

sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history

She weaves more than thirty songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music

villages of her home country--and threatens to unearth the secrets of Smita's own family and their history

"What strategies will help our children learn to function well in a diverse nation? With the goal of bringing up children "who are able, engaged, and high-functioning when it comes to matters

They return to Beirut, each broken in a way, each searching for home, fulfillment, history, peace, or

make ends meet in California and drifting a little bit--oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious

last week) courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 03 Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu In an alternate history

: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz "...I never really wanted

including Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley. 02 Why We Love Baseball: A History

their own complications and pain--and which he seems to resent), and linking much of his inability to function

and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History Women Made Music is pulled from the NPR series Turning the Tables and includes interviews, archive materials

the stories across time, he also set up rich glimpses into characters' lives at different points in history

With gorgeous National Parks photography and fascinating National Parks history, this is perfect for

Excruciatingly awkward sexual missteps and repeated details about her bodily functions, not so much.

North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving the essential history

write "in the hopes that what I write and say, and what others write and say, will inform and inspire action the desire to remove the pressure on people of color to be walking Google sources for experience and history often-traditional colorblind approaches to race; and how guilt can paralyze and prevent productive action

North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving the essential history

Beautiful by Maggie Smith Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, and she weaves in history The book is made up of many short sections, and much of Smith's exploration is focused on the way in

I mentioned the music-focused book Music Is History in an earlier book gift list this season and included

realize, which is just how El wanted it--feared she might accidentally take out Orion before she could master A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned

Abu-Jaber made me hungry while drawing me into her history, with recipes special to her placed strategically have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after the first section I found the sections about a day in the life of Bourdain's kitchen and a day in the life of a three-star I really fell for Bourdain watching him in action on television--witnessing his bristly manner and his I found her teenage daughter's sections somewhat irritating, but it must be tough to be a teenager drawn

stability; and the ambivalent search for a parent who left her children behind without any answers or history

Abu-Jaber made me hungry while drawing me into her history, with recipes special to her placed strategically have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after the first section I found the sections about a day in the life of Bourdain's kitchen and a day in the life of a three-star I really fell for Bourdain watching him in action on television--witnessing his bristly manner and his I found her teenage daughter's sections irritating, but it has to be tough to be a teenager drawn into

He has a painful history he's trying to accept and get past, but sometimes darkness seeps into his thoughts introspection and the calm of creating works of art, but also a brush with more brutality that spurs Jim to action

French's character- and relationship-driven mysteries keep me waiting anxiously for the twists and turns She writes literary mysteries without cheap thrills and gimmicky tricks.